Tutorial

Introduction What Does Pike Look Like? Pike and Some Other Languages Reading this Tutorial

First Steps Your Very First Pike Program I Want My Greeting in a Window! Interactive Pike

Fundamental Concepts Terminology / Glossary

Your Second Pike Program The Bare Bones Running the Program Command-line Arguments and if Methods and Loops Magic Web Stuff Syntactic Sugar Showing the Page Some Notes About WWW

An Introduction to Data Types What is a data type? Basic Types Container Types Object, Program and Function Variable Definitions Basic Types and Reference Types

Methods Methods: an Introduction Calling a method More Advanced Examples

Object-Oriented Programming Object Orientation in General Object Orientation in Pike Creating and Using Objects How to Create a Class Classes as Record Types Programs are Classes and Vice Versa Inheritance Multiple Inheritance Access control

Statements Choosing between Alternatives Repetition (or "Loops") The Other Statement Types

More About Data Types The Basic Types Container Types The Other Reference Types

Working with Strings Operators on Strings Built-in Functions for Strings Composing Strings with sprintf Analyzing Strings with sscanf Wide Strings

Expressions Some Terminology Arithmetical Operations Operations on Complex Types Comparison Logical Expressions Bitwise Operations Operations on Sets Indexing Assignment Type Conversions The Comma Operator Call and Splice Operator Precedence and Associativity

The Preprocessor Preprocessor Directives

Modules Some Examples of Modules How Do You Use a Module? How Do You Create a Module? How Does Pike Find the Modules?

Errors and Error Handling Error Messages from Pike Error Handling: the Concept Detecting an Error Handling the Error Error Codes catch and throw

Not Covered Here Uncharted Terrain